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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
“’Tis desperate, so ‘tis” Tony Simpson
Burnt Barley Peta Mathias Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1869414276 Irish at Heart Marie Gray HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1865903449 It’s bound to continue to be one of the curiosities of this century – as it was of the last – that however…
Tagged with: December 2000, HarperCollins, Issue 46, Marie Gray, Peta Mathias, Tony Simpson, Vintage
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
“A genius for upholstery”, Kim Hill
Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady: such an adolescent cliché, you could say, not to mention a literary one. Spirited young thing falls in thrall to a superficially sophisticated older man, and ruins her life. The Victorians were apparently…
Overlapping associations, Tom Larkin
Japan and New Zealand, 150 Years ed Roger Peren New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Massey University, in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, [not for sale], ISBN 0958350574 In 1878, Asajiro Noda, the eight-year-old son…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Issue 46, New Zealand Centre for Japanese Studies, Roger Peren, Tom Larkin
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Pacific, Review, War
Light that fire, Lydia Wevers
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 eds Alan Brunton, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 869402308 A thick black-and-white book with a beautiful cover illustration by Patrick Hanly taken from the second issue of Freed, Big Smoke…
Tagged with: Alan Brunton, Auckland University Press, December 2000, Issue 46, Lydia Wevers, Michele Leggott, Murray Edmond
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – James Brown
The Crickets We came creeping out the cracks hot summer nights at the local swimming pool like black, anti-cicadas of the night, our exotic chirps a skimpy advert for the sins we hoped would be forthcoming. We sucked in…
From the University of Suffering, Joe Bennett
Julia Moore : Julia Moore P.I. Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 0140293833 Lauren Roche: Bent Not Broken Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877228338 These are the stories of two New Zealand women who have triumphed over circumstance. Neither story makes cheerful reading…
Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Joe Bennett, Julia Moore, Lauren Roche, Penguin, Steele Roberts
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
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Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – Elizabeth Smither
A dentist’s view of heaven No drill, no syringes, no mouth washes no cotton padding like tiny bolsters no excavating a tooth like a collapsed house in which at the bottom remains like a family safe in a doodlebug…
A hard-won magic, Elizabeth Crayford
Markings Cilla McQueen Otago University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877133922 Not long after Cilla McQueen moved to her new address on Liffey St, Bluff, she booked a place on a tour of the Tiwai aluminium smelter, the chimney of which…
Tagged with: Cilla McQueen, December 2000, Elizabeth Crayford, Issue 46, Otago University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review